they dodged a bullet in rehoboth. >>> the storm surge from sandy is the biggest threat right now. experts from the coastal engineering from institute of technology. thank you for joining us. the most dangerous part of this storm is it sounds like is the storm surge. how significant is this? >> the storm surge is usually where you see most of the fatalities in these events. the water comes up typically so fast people don't realize the danger until it's too late. fortunately with this won the worst of it is behind us. >> so you think we are sort of out of the woods but nevertheless a lot of that water is still there. talk with us about the combination of the storm surge with these very high tides right now. >> a lot of times timing is the factor. this storm hit a period of spring high time. it made the conditions worse. all of the rain needs somewhere to drain to. if the tides say high there's nowhere for the water to go. >> there's nowhere for the water to go. some of this flows back into the ocean the long island sound et cetera and rivers. but it really saturated the ground. what